Chapter 18 Swine Plague

Jiang Cuihua was also worried: "Okay, I'll ask your brothers to clean the pigsty properly later."

Liu Yinyin's family doesn't have pigs, but they have a few hens.

These chickens are important treasures in the family, and Liu Yinyin is counting on making money from their eggs.

After arriving home, Liu Yinyin hurried to check on the chickens. Fortunately, the chickens were all alive and well and seemed to be fine.

But she was still not reassured, so she disinfected the pigpen inside and out.

During this period, we don't let the chickens out to forage for food.

After finishing the work, Liu Yinyin's stomach started to growl.

Oh!

After being busy all morning, she even forgot to eat breakfast!

It was almost ten o'clock now, so Liu Yinyin simply made lunch.

Braised carp, cold eggplant salad, and the staple food is cornmeal steamed buns.

During this rainy period, there is no chance to go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables. There are still some dried wild vegetables at home, but Liu Yinyin is too lazy to bother, so she just steams cornmeal dumplings and eats them.

Just after finishing the meal, her elder brother Liu Mingcheng came with a small bucket of fish.

"Little sister, mother said you like to catch small fish, so these small fish are all for you."

The river has receded, and most of the people who went fishing returned with a full load.

The Liu family was lucky and caught half a bucket of fish. However, there were more small fish than big ones.

Jiang Cuihua was unwilling to bother with those small fish and shrimps, so she picked out the big fish and asked Liu Mingcheng to send the rest to Liu Yinyin.

Liu Yinyin didn't mind and accepted it happily.

"By the way, little sister, mom asked me to ask you if you still want to make magical tofu and sell it at the market tomorrow?"

Tomorrow is the day of the big market. The heavy rain has stopped, so the big market will naturally go on as scheduled.

Big set?

Liu Yinyin thought for a moment, shook her head and said, "There is no Fu Bi Ye Zi at home, so I can't make fairy tofu. I won't go tomorrow."

She was pregnant and didn't dare eat too much of the magic tofu because it had medicinal properties, so she never made the magic tofu again and just boiled mung bean soup to drink.

The chickens at home haven’t laid eggs yet, and it’s not easy to take other things to the market to exchange for other things, so I decided not to go.

In the afternoon, many people in the village started going up the mountain to dig wild vegetables and pick rotten wood leaves.

It had just rained heavily, and the road on the mountain must have been even more difficult to walk on, so Liu Yinyin did not follow immediately.

The next day, the sun came out and it was a sunny day.

After finishing her breakfast, Liu Yinyin took her basket and went up the mountain to pick wild vegetables. There was a big market today, so not many people came to the mountain to pick wild vegetables.

Liu Yinyin dug a lot of wild vegetables and picked a lot of mushrooms.

She stopped selling to the system. She was almost five months pregnant and soon she wouldn’t be able to dig up wild vegetables.

Therefore, while you can still move, you should collect more dried wild vegetables and wild mushrooms to avoid having nothing to eat later.

Jiang Cuihua went there in the morning and brought two pots of magical tofu to exchange for things, but business was not so good this time.

"Well, you don't know. I saw several families in our village bring magic tofu to the market to sell. People in other villages also know how to make magic tofu. The news spreads really fast. I was forced to sell all the things at the last penny per bowl. I didn't make any money at all. It seems that I can't do this business anymore."

Jiang Cuihua came over to give something to her daughter, and chattered to Liu Yinyin about what happened at the market.

Then, she took out a piece of pork from the basket and said happily, "You don't know, there is pork for sale at the market today, and it's quite cheap, only 50 cents a pound, and you don't even need a meat ticket!"

To buy pork at the county supply and marketing cooperative, you need a meat ticket and it costs 80 cents per pound.

When Jiang Cuihua saw that it was so cheap, she quickly bought four kilograms and gave one kilogram to Liu Yinyin.

Liu Yinyin felt something was wrong when she heard this. People in the countryside raise piglets in the early spring, and this one was only three or four months old.

Pigs can still grow meat for a few more months, so why would anyone be willing to kill them now?

Liu Yinyin took a look at the pork that Jiang Cuihua brought, and she almost vomited.

I saw that the pork was covered with white bumps, which was disgusting to look at.

Liu Yinyin covered her mouth, frowned and said, "Mom, the pork you bought must be sick. It can't be eaten."

Jiang Cuihua said nonchalantly, "It's not that fussy. It doesn't matter if it's a sick pig or not. As long as it's cooked, you can eat it."

It is not easy for those country people to raise pigs. If a pig gets sick, they cannot just throw it away. They can only kill the pig and sell it cheaply.

Liu Yinyin: “…”

She felt that the matter was still quite serious, and advised: "Mom, this should not be an ordinary sick pig. If I am not mistaken, this may be plague pig meat."

The smile on Jiang Cuihua's face disappeared instantly: "This...can't be enough."

If it is infected with diseased pork, then it is really not edible.

"Mom, didn't you say that the pigs at home are very healthy? I'm starting to suspect that there might be swine fever in other villages."

Liu Yinyin was not sure either, but in this kind of situation, it is better to believe it than not. No matter what, it is better to be careful.

"It cost two dollars." If it was diseased pork, Jiang Cuihua would be heartbroken.

Liu Yinyin warned, "Life is more important than money. You must not eat this pork."

Jiang Cuihua was still a little unwilling: "Don't eat it yet, I'll go back and ask others first."

If there really was swine fever in another village, it would be impossible that there would be no news at all.

Liu Yinyin didn't dare to eat the piece of pork, and Jiang Cuihua was reluctant to throw it away. After returning home, she marinated four pounds of pork with salt, thinking that if she found out that there was no swine fever, she would eat it later.

Unfortunately, Jiang Cuihua didn't have time to ask others about this.

That afternoon, I heard that someone in the village had eaten diseased pork and was vomiting continuously, and had been sent to the health center.

There were more than one such person, and there was even a family whose entire family was sent to the hospital.

Jiang Cuihua went home with a pale face and quickly threw away those pounds of pork!

After Liu Laifu finished work, he told her, "The village chief has informed us that there is an important meeting at the threshing ground. At least one person from each household must attend. Go and talk to Yinyin."

After saying that, Liu Lai Fu left first.

When Jiang Cuihua took Liu Yinyin to the threshing ground, it was already crowded with people, so they could only stand outside and watch.

There was a lot of noise on the threshing floor. After a while, the village chief Liu Changquan and the team leader Liu Baomin came. Liu Changquan shouted "Quiet" to the crowd through a loudspeaker.

After the villagers fell silent, Liu Changquan began to talk about the topic: "Fellow villagers, I just got the news that the pigs of several households in Shijia Village have been infected with swine fever."

As soon as these words were spoken, the threshing floor immediately became lively.

Someone said: "My pigs have been acting sick lately and don't like to eat. Could they have also been infected with swine fever?"

"It's the same in my family. Oh my God, what can I do?"

There were also families who did not raise pigs and said gloatingly: "What else can we do? We can dig a hole and bury the pigs."